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• Facebook Home offers a fresh take on Android UI (Photos) – 9to5Google has a look at the HTC First, which Facebook is expected to unveil today as part of its Facebook Home initiative. And Live Coverage: Facebook Android Phone Software to Be Announced Today • Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg’s Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire …

• Facebook To Reveal “Home On Android” Sources Say Is A Modified OS On HTC At 4/4 Event – Facebook’s April 4th event reportedly will talk about an HTC phone running a version of Android with Facebook integrated. And Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon, ad campaign in the works • Amazon acquires book-based social …

• That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie – You may have heard on Wednesday that the Internet was melting down, the result of a fight between Spamhaus and Dutch hosting service Cyberbunker. Uh, yeah. No. • Egypt catches divers cutting Internet cable amid disruptions – The cable was owned by Egypt Telecom. • Scientists …

One of the most-used features of any smartphone is its camera. The ability to take a decent photo and share it quickly with friends, family and, yes, the entire world is compelling. And as smartphone cameras get better and better, they’ve made the consumer point-and-shoot camera an endangered species. That makes Samsung’s Galaxy Camera a …

• Disconnect: why Andy Rubin and Android called it quits – It may be the classic case of the entrepreneur who’s great at starting something, but doesn’t quite know what to do once the product is well-established and even dominant. Nice analysis by The Verge’s Adrianne Jeffries. • DOJ & SEC allegedly investigating Microsoft over …

• Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own – The digitization of ordinary things brings their ownership into question. But when you buy something, you should own it, and then have the right to do anything you like with it. • Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple …

Shortly after Steve Jobs died, the death watch for Apple itself began. The assumption by many in the tech press was that Jobs was Apple’s soul, and without him, the company that he founded, fled, returned to and then resurrected would wither away. Financially, that’s not happened. Apple’s doing quite well in terms of revenue …

• Following Samsung Galaxy S4 launch, Apple debuts ‘Why iPhone’ webpage to tout why people love iPhone, slam Android – Again, as with Phil Schiller’s interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Apple comes off sounding defensive, almost desperate. And this was sent as an email to many people who’d already bought an iPhone …

• Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them – The letters included a gag order forbidding the recipients from discussing them, which the court found violated free speech. • Security blogger Brian Krebs suffers simultaneous cyber attack, police raid – At the same time a denial-of-service attack is launched on his website, someone …

• Samsung Galaxy S IV Hands On: Everything New Is Old Again and Samsung’s Galaxy S 4: Introduction & Hands On – The newest Samsung smartphone gets mixed reviews from those who get some time with it after Wednesday’s launch event. Gizmodo thinks it’s a “missed opportunity”, while AnandTech says power users will prefer a …

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